iGP Manager 26: Fixes Thread

CEO & CTO
141 days ago (Last edited by Jack Basford 141 days ago)

DRS FIXES

DRS Distance Calculation Revised
After reports of DRS not always activating I did find something tonight which could be the cause. It would directly impact the time/distance calculation. A patch has been applied and it is live in the service now. Keep me posted on how it goes.

DRS from cars 2+ laps down
This should also be resolved.

DESIGN FIXES

Designs not saving fix
Anyone who couldn't save designs should try again now. It appears numerous teams had duplicated designs and these have all been repaired.

Noteworthy: We just had a fault-free day

It's great to hear the reports of races being really smooth today. That is what I would expect - we ran at full capacity (all servers online) and had 0 faults in the entire day. No memory leaks, nothing. The patches are working and I'll keep them coming. Today was a significant milestone.

Bert

Hi there Jack,
It's bert from supreme championship.
In the race result yesterday was a team with 0stops 4laps behind showing in p2?
Although points where distributed in correct ways. ?

There have been reports of teams not accurately reporting pit stops. When I have seen this, they did actually perform the pit stops but it wasn't accurately displayed in the lap-by-lap data. So, when I have seen it at least, the result is correct, but the lap / pit count is not.

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Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
140 days ago

Attempted fixes for the following have just been applied, we will need to monitor based on your feedback:

VIP subscribers unable to participate in more than one league / race in one league at a time or not being on the points standings if they do

Laps with pit stops sometimes not showing up in race results (leading to weird standings like the car in 3rd overall saying +3 laps if they did 3 pit stops)

League host transfer not working

2D Update
I'm looking into these personally now, as top priority. I had assigned other developers but after reviewing it myself, I don't want to delay while they get up to speed. These will likely require a new build to be released on Android/iOS/Windows/WebGL so may take time. I'd recommend playing in 3D in the meantime for the best accuracy, and if you must see the race in 2D but want accuracy, the minimap mode as a fallback with more accurate 2D positioning. Not ideal, I know, but until a solution is in place.

Track Update
I have also just been passed another "phantom braking" incident on Azerbaijan. I will look into this tonight.

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Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
138 days ago

FYI a couple of lower priority fixes from yesterday I didn't mention.

App notifications have been improved to have sensible limits (max 5 per day, max 1 notification per 5 mins) and extra safety guards to prevent back-to-back notification spam

AI chat needed a fix and while I fixed it I brought the response time down from 15s to < 1s with realtime typing like ChatGPT

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Osaro O
138 days ago

Apologies if mentioned before, but what should we do if we havent received our research points (points usually sent to us by email by our TDs), I just had a race and received no communication after

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Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
138 days ago

Phantom braking fix
This most notably showed up on Azerbaijan on the start finish straight but could have been a global issue with start/finish lines. This should be gone for good now. I was finally able to test and debug this properly, and completely changed the way the simulator handles start/finish area.

Osaro

Apologies if mentioned before, but what should we do if we havent received our research points (points usually sent to us by email by our TDs), I just had a race and received no communication after

I've made a thread where you can request them until I get this issue resolved:

https://igpmanager.com/forum-thread/64252

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Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
134 days ago

Simulator update
An update to the simulator was just rolled out which has the following changes:

Fix for DRS from lapped cars

Tyre impacts on fuel consumption removed - this should stop the reports of erratic fuel consumption during a race

Cars out of fuel should coast for much longer and scrub speed much more gradually

Retiring cars should enter ghost mode and be removed from the W2W racing system, meaning you can pass through them and not get held up.

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A B
134 days ago

Thanks for the hard work jack.

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Javier Fernández
131 days ago Translate

Jack

Simulator update
An update to the simulator was just rolled out which has the following changes:

Fix for DRS from lapped cars

Tyre impacts on fuel consumption removed - this should stop the reports of erratic fuel consumption during a race

Cars out of fuel should coast for much longer and scrub speed much more gradually

Retiring cars should enter ghost mode and be removed from the W2W racing system, meaning you can pass through them and not get held up.

Good morning Jack,

Thank you very much for the work and improvements made, but some things should be improved.

For example, the issue with cars running out of fuel needs improvement. In my league, which has refueling, when someone isn't racing, they set up with 1 liter of fuel to avoid disrupting the race. Currently, there's a problem with cars without a fuel setup and with cars using a 1-liter setup; they interfere with the race and make it unpredictable whether there's an advantage or disadvantage.

I think you should fix the issue where unconfigured cars can't go out on track to race, and if you could enable an option so that if a manager can't race, it's indicated in some way that they won't participate (or simply not being configured would prevent them from participating).

Thank you and good job

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Eduardo Calvo
131 days ago

Javier

For example, the issue with cars running out of fuel needs improvement. In my league, which has refueling, when someone isn't racing, they set up with 1 liter of fuel to avoid disrupting the race. Currently, there's a problem with cars without a fuel setup and with cars using a 1-liter setup; they interfere with the race and make it unpredictable whether there's an advantage or disadvantage.

That would be a very good incentive to keep activity in current leagues. If a car doesn't set up for the race, it should be disqualified or count as a DNS. Would be one of the best quality of life improvements possible.

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Chris 'Iceman' Tones
131 days ago

Eduardo

I thought that was already coming in as an option but on the other side of the coin is where someone has done setup but it didn't save for whatever reason and/or is doing setup and gets locked out before saving it then they either can't race with 1 or both cars or 1 car is a brick and the other is flying until it runs out of fuel.. either way both are being an issue. If there was a generic default setup with AI comparable to the previous time the car raced then it would make more sense because they are running close to what the manager was going to be going with anyway, and then it's up to the Host to define 'x' amount of races absent or whatever which Polling and being able to manually kick someone is already there to do.

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Sean O'Callaghan
131 days ago (Last edited by Sean O'Callaghan 129 days ago)

Hi Jack,

I know you are working on a rebuild of the 2D, for the most part, i have not had much issues with the 2D viewer [apart fromt he first few days of IGP 26] but we raced Mexico tonight. It was woful in 2D

After the race, i jumbed in to view another brazil race, grabed a video, link supplied below

Issues noted:

DRS way too far down the DRS straight

Cars flying around slow corners and slowing on straights

Cars jumping into pits

Cars stopping to pit at pit exit

Cars speeding up/slowing down in wierd places compared to the car in front

Regards

Sean

Note: Edited to add Mexico [wrong track mentined in initial post, Thanks Mahir for the feedback]

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Mahir Hasanhodzic
129 days ago

This is Mexico GP, not Brazil. Wrong link or name ??

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Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
129 days ago

Thanks for the reports and updates everyone. In case you're wondering why I'm quieter at the moment, we're busy working on the features and updates we need to deliver next week. Things are very busy behind the scenes.

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